What the Tide Keeps
Mara Voss came home for a funeral and stayed to find a body. When her aunt Ruth vanishes hours after the burial of Dorian Crane, patriarch of Fog Street's most powerful family, Mara is the only one who notices , or cares. The Cranes have ruled the harbor town for three generations, and the Bracks and Holts have long since learned to look away. But Mara remembers the summer Ruth stopped speaking, the year Marianne Crane disappeared from her own wedding, and the night her cousin Cullen Brack swore someone was buried beneath the estate's rose garden. The police call it coincidence. Reverend Holt calls it grief. But Dr. Laine Okafor, the new coroner, finds wounds that shouldn't exist on Ruth's body, and Sable Wynn , Ruth's vanished closest friend , resurfaces with a journal that names every secret the town has tried to drown. As Gideon Marsh begins to ask the questions no one will, Mara realizes the truth isn't buried. It's being fed to the tide, piece by piece, to keep the Crane legacy intact. She can take Ruth's journal to the press, walk away, and let the old families bury their own dead. Or she can follow the trail into the harbor fog and discover what the tide has been keeping since the night Dorian Crane first built his house on the sea , and whether she'll live long enough to tell it.